Why are we here?
We ❤
programming.
We are not alone...
"The worldwide software developer population is expected to grow to 19.5 million by 2010".
— Evans Report
30 million! 
Compared to 7 billion...
Only 30 million
☹
Why Programming
is useful for everyone
Automating
- Housework
- Finance
- Researchers
- Scientists
- Book Design
- Customer Support
- Firefighting
- ...
Creating
- Art
- Photography
- Architecture
- Music
- Furniture
- Design
- Fashion
- ...
Innovating
The FUTURE?
Reading, Writing, Algorithms
But the future isn't here yet...
How Programming
can be taught to everyone
Universities
UNSW
MIT
244 courses!
Stanford
Automata
Compilers
...plus 8 more
Coursera
Udacity
Online
Udemy
"Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world's experts."
Khan Academy
"We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere."
Codecademy
CodeYear
1 million signups!
In Person
"However, this weekend I discovered something amazing and glorious. Learning from a human! In a room with other humans!"
- The Neophyte Hacker
Workshops
Skillshare
"Our vision is to increase the global passion index by building a new world of education."
CoderDojo
"CoderDojo makes development and learning to code a fun, sociable, kick ass experience."
GirlDevelopIt
See also:
RailsBridge, PyLadies, WebStartWomen, LadiesLearningCode, BlackGirlsCode
Twitter Code Class
Why am I telling you all this...?
Your Challenge
1 person, 1 year, Many ways
Teach the World to Code
Thanks to XKCD for the stick figures and daily inspiration.